The wasted potential can be weighted in stones

Stone (2010)

Jack Mabry (Robert De Niro) is soon to be retiring parole officer whose life is in a stand still. One of his last cases is with Gerald 'Stone' Creeson (Edward Norton) an arsonist who thinks he has already served enough punishment from the crime he did. Jack being cold and withdrawn Stone cons his way past the defences to see what makes Jack tick. Stone then sends his wife Lucetta (Milla Jovovich) to play with the weaknesses of Jack in hopes of a quick release. Lucetta wraps Jack around her finger with ease and soon Jack finds out he has been played with. This movie tries to be a psychological thriller, but to be honest it fails at it. There's really nothing to grab on to, things just come at you like statements without any depth to them making it feel very alienating even though it should be inviting you to these people's minds. So the script is quite bad, even though the overall story is quite intriguing, but the way the motives are brought out is just bad. That makes the viewing experience quite painful as the movie is in very slow tempo. The cast is quite brilliant, even Robert De Niro who hasn't really impressed lately does a solid job and Frances Conroy was quite great as Jack's wife. So a good overall story with a great cast is wasted with a bad excecution and a boringly shallow script.
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